Re: gas mileage on older Saturns

#1

Base SL or SL1 will yeild an average of 40mpg on the highway and 25-30 in
the city, ours did. DOHC expect 25-35 mpg.

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#2

"marx404" <404 (AT) 404 (DOT) com> wrote

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Base SL or SL1 will yeild an average of 40mpg on the highway and 25-30 in
the city, ours did. DOHC expect 25-35 mpg.

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marx404

Wow, you all must use a "heavy" foot. My '94 manual SL averaged just
under 40 mpg *total* (perhaps 60% highway, 40% city) in cold weather and
better than 40 mpg total in summer.

#3

In article <euh5j5$2pu3$1 (AT) si05 (DOT) rsvl.unisys.com>,
"Steve" <steven_dot_turetzky_at_unisys_com (AT) deletethis (DOT) com> wrote:

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I had a 99 SL, SOHC, stick shift and usually got around 35 city and 40mpg
on the hwy. Without A/C on I would get near 42 mpg on hwy.

I have a 97SLI, auto and get around 31 city and 39-40 hwy depending on
A/C
being on or off.

That's awesome. A new hybrid can't do much better than that.

Just imagine what an SL hybrid could do!

A VW diesel rabbit will do a lot better

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#4

On 30 Mar 2007 18:31:01 -0700, in rec.autos.makers.saturn "danielr"
<280240 (AT) sympatico (DOT) ca> wrote:

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i have a 97 sl, standard xmission. it has 136500 km.
i get 520 km with 40 liters ( more or less full tank; 75% hwy + 25%
city) .
i don't know equvalents to usa imperial, so i'll leave to you the fun
of working the equivalnet to mpg.
good luck.

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sorry, forgot to add, it's a sohc.

40l / 520km = 13km/liter = 30.5778958 miles per gallon (US)

Calculations courtesy of OnlineConversion.com
http://www.onlineconversion.com/
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#5

Steve, yea, I do have a heavy foot :-) but I was being conservative. Yes,
you can get a steady 40mpg average from a base SL, many have. In heavy stop
and go traffic like I had back home in FL, it went down though, where I live
now in the boonies, my mileage went way up!

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marx404

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